Review on fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods in medical diagnosis

Abstract

In a real-world computing environment, the information is not complete, precise, and certain, making it very difficult to derive an actual decision. Uncertainty is a factor that makes the decision-making process more difficult in medical diagnosis. Everyone is different from the other at the physical level as well as mental level, symptoms of a disease expressed by patients are linguistic in nature and vary from person to person. That is why Decision making in medical diagnosis is becoming a vast research field in medical science. In medical diagnosis, generally, uncertainty (vagueness or imprecision) arises due to patients’ vague linguistic expression of their problems to medical experts. The field of medicine and decision-making are the most fruitful and interesting areas of applications of fuzzy set theory. In the present paper, we study the importance of different fuzzy sets and fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods in the field of medical diagnosis.